Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 54

She kept in touch with many of them all her life, corresponding with them after going to China, and hunting them up during her furloughs in this country.

Who acts: school · What happens: keep, correspond, go, hunt up · To what, where: touch, China, courses

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (school), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 touch	case
4	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
5	with	with	ADP	_	11 life	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 life	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 many	nmod
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 life	det:predet
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 corresponding	punct
13	corresponding	correspond	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 corresponding	obl
16	after	after	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 corresponding	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 China	case
19	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 going	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hunting	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hunting	cc
22	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	advcl
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 hunting	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 hunting	compound:prt
25	during	during	ADP	_	27 furloughs	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 furloughs	nmod:poss
27	furloughs	furlough	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hunting	obl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 country	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 country	det
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 furloughs	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	school		touch		with school's life	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in touch=Location
2	correspond	gerund	school not said here				with courses = course	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme whether S»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent
3	go	gerund	school not said here		China			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to china=Initial_Location
4	hunt up	gerund	school not said here	courses = course		during school's furloughs in this country		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 54

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, Nellie N. Russell, sentence 54